225 El Paseo de las Araucarias de los Jardines de Woodstock, Irlanda; una avendia de más de quinientos metros de largo The Monkey Puzzle Walk of Woodstock, a six hundred yard-long avenue Foto/photo Claire Goodwin he Woodstock Gardens are located in the Southeast of Kilkenny in the outskirts of the picturesque town of Inistioge, Ireland. The gardens were restored in 1840-1890 by the headgardeners, Pierce Butler and then Charles McDonald, under the supervision of Lady Louisa Lennox,the owner of the property. One of the additions was the creation of the \"Monkey Puzzle Walk\".Planted in 1845, one year after William Lobb arrived in Great Britain with seeds brought from Chile.Originally thirty-one pairs of Monkey Puzzle trees were planted (sixty-two in total) at intervals ofnine meters to form a path five hundred and twenty-two meters long. At the beginning the trees didnot do well, so between 1861-62, the chief gardener, Charles MacDonald, intervened, applying abetter drainage system and replanting the trees. The result was admired by his colleagues and today themajority of the Monkey Puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana) show healthy growth.

238 Palmas Chilenas (Jubaea chilensis) en el área Reagan de Los Ángeles Chilean Wine Palms (Jubaea chilensis) in the Reagan area of Los Angeles Foto/photo Henry Céspedes l clima de Los Ángeles tiene gran similitud he climate of Los Angeles has many con el de la costa central de Chile. La Palma similarities to the central coast of Chile. The Chilena ( Jubaea chilensis), encuentra allí environment there is a good for the growth un buen ambiente para su desarrollo. En la ciudad of the Chilean Palms ( Jubaea chilensis). In the se distingue (y admira) a la Jubaea chilensis por su city it is distinguished (and admired) for its robust porte robusto y grueso tronco, en comparación con size and thick trunk, in comparison to the common las comunes palmas espigadas que conforman el palms which form part of the urban landscape of Los paisaje urbano de Los Ángeles. Angeles.Jubaea chilensis en Woodland En el Jardín Botánico de la Biblioteca Huntington The Botanical Garden of the Huntington LibraryHills, Los Angeles de San Marino, a veinte kilómetros del centro de of San Marino, twenty kilometers from the center Los Ángeles, se conserva una extraordinaria Jubaea of Los Angeles, maintains an extraordinary JubaeaChilean Wine Palms Jubaea chilensis. Este jardín botánico junto a la biblioteca, chilensiis. This botanical garden, together with thechilensis in Woodland Hills, es uno de los legados de Henry Huntington, un library, is one of the legacies of Henry Huntington,Los Angeles próspero empresario de principios del siglo XX a prosperous businessman from the beginning of que donó gran parte de su fortuna a la cultura the Twentieth century who donated a large partFoto/photo Giana Céspedes y educación. Las cuarenta y ocho hectáreas de of his fortune to culture and education. The forty superficie, están organizadas en dieciséis jardines eight hectares of space is organized into sixteen temáticos, entre los que se encuentra el Jardín de thematic gardens, among them the Garden of Palms. Palmas, sector en que destaca la Jubaea chilensis, A Chilean Palm ( Jubaea chilensis) stands out in además de otras doscientas especies de palmas. this sector, as well as another two hundred species Henry Huntington admiraba la apariencia tropical of palms. Henry Huntington himself admired the y las armoniosas proporciones de las palmas. Por su tropical look and the harmonious proportions of the parte, la biblioteca que lleva su apellido, es una de palms. For its part the library, which took his name, las más importantes de Estados Unidos, entre sus is one of the most important of the United States. libros posee un ejemplar de la Biblia de Gutenberg Among its books is an example of the Gutenberg y la primera edición de folio de algunas obras de Bible and the first edition of some works of William William Shakespeare. Shakespeare.

247 he Eden Project is one of the largest and most novel Wild Chile” is located in the outer gardens and includes Algunas de las Araucarias sustainability projects in the world. It is a privilege six Fitzroyas or Chilean Larches (Fitzroya cupressoides), (Araucaria araucana) for Chile that the Eden Project created one space eleven sharp leaf Mañíos (Podocarpus nubigenus),focused on “Wild Chile”. This includes numerous native twenty five longleaf Mañíos (Podocarpus salignus), plantadas el año 2000 enChilean species, from Fitzroya, Podocarpus, Nothofagus two Raulí (Nothofagus alpina), three Robles (Nothofagus el sector \"Chile Salvaje\" del(described later on) to small bushes. obliqua), three Tineos (Weinmannia trichosperma), two Luma (Amomyrtus luma), two Canelos (Drimys winteri), Proyecto EdénThe Eden Project makes use of the opening of an old kaolin two Notros (Embothrium coccineum), five Taiquesmine (a raw material for making porcelain). The process (Desfontainia fulgens), an Ulmo (Eucryphia cordifolia) and Some of the Monkey Puzzleleaves large holes in the ground from washing out the kaolin seventy one Monkey Puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana), trees (Araucaria araucana)(clay) with high powered water jets. Eden Project was able among others. It also includes striking bushes such as planted in 2000 in the “Wildto fill the ex-mine with gardens. It evolved from a sketch Chaquihues (Crinodendron hookerianum) and Pataguasmade by an architect on a napkin from an English pub, and (Crinodendron patagua). Chile” section of the Edenin 2000 it become an emblematic project of the Millennium ProjectCommission of Great Britain. The transparent domes, made In a different area of the garden, Eden Project has awith ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene), comprise of Climate Change exhibit, which includes two Chilean Palms Foto/photoa double layer of hexagons and pentagons that give them ( Jubaea chilensis) and some plants of the Bromeliaceae Julie Kendall/ Eden Projectresistance, light and isolation. One of the domes holds the family, such as several kind of Chaguales (Puya chilensis,largest artificial rain forest in the world. At fifty meters Puya berteroniana, Puya alpestris and Puya venusta);high, the dome could fit in the Tower of London. originally from arid foothills of Chile, in the Eden Project demonstrates their ability to grow in diverse climates,A total of four hundred people work on the Eden Project, including English weather.and during the summer season another two hundredemployees and one hundred fifty volunteers are added. It hasbeen open to the public since 2001 and is visited by aroundone million people each year.